Books of this age do not have a bibliography
in the same way as today's books do. Instead, sources used are
found either in a preface or as a footnote on a page.

In the Preface, Davies states that he has used "Mr. Pilkington's
valuable History ... as a text book" and it was his main
source of material. Whilst he does not say which edition he consulted,
he either used:

Pilkington, James of Derby (1789) "A View of the present
state of Derbyshire; with an account of its most remarkable antiquites,
etc., Derby
: J. Drewry.

Or the early nineteenth century update:
Pilkington, James of Derby (1803) A view of the present state
of Derbyshire ... The natural history of the medicinal
waters of Buxton and Matlock, By Erasmus Darwin. 2nd ed,
Derby: William Marriott.

Domesday references.
"The ancient names of places are printed in italics, and are,
chiefly taken from" A
Translation of the Record called Domesday ... by William
Bawdwen.
Davies described the work as "lately published".

Other works:

Aitken's History of the County Around Manchester

Archaeologia (Several Volumes incl. VI &
XII)

T Blore FSA: History of the Manor and Manor House of South
Winfield

Bray's Tour into Derbyshire

Britannia

John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley: The Beauties of England
and Wales, Vol.3Matlock
extracts

Butcher, Edmund (1805) Excursion from Sidmouth to Chester

Dugdale's Baron Vol I

Fuller's Church History Vol I

Gibson's Camden

Gibson's Saxon Chronicles

Hume Vol I

Hutton's History of Derbyshire

Hutchinson's Tour Through the High Peak

Lipscombe's Matlock

Mawe's Mineralogy of Matlock

Pegge, Samuel, A.M. (1769) The Roman roads, Ikenild-Street
and Bath-Way, discovered and investigated through the country
of the Coritani, or the county of Derby

Reports to the Board of Agriculture [these were probably Farey's
Reports, published the same year]